Thing is, it didn’t really happen. At least, not in the traditional sense. What you just saw was Gordon in action. It’s an open source Flash runtime written in JavaScript, written by Tobias Schneider. Flash doesn’t work on iPhones, but JavaScript? That’s no problem at all.

Now, most of you will know that I’m no developer. I have only the vaguest idea what a Flash runtime is – a friend of mine just described it as “a thing to heat up your laptop and make the fan spin,” which is a perfect summary for a simpleton like me.

But hey, it’s Flash of a sort, working on an iPhone. And that’s, you know, a Thing. I thought you might like to know.